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kovidgoyal · 12-13-2009, 11:49 PM

I'm confused the only "open source" e-book format I know of (prior to EPUB) is FB2. What are all these mythical e-book formats that are supposed to be confusing the poor befuddled end users? Sounds suspicously like all those Microsoft funded studies that concluded using open source software would cause the end of the world.

12-13-2009, 11:49 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,419 Karma: 27757236 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm confused the only "open source" e-book format I know of (prior to EPUB) is FB2. What are all these mythical e-book formats that are supposed to be confusing the poor befuddled end users? Sounds suspicously like all those Microsoft funded studies that concluded using open source software would cause the end of the world. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 12-13-2009 at 11:51 PM.